“I talk about football – that’s all I do,” said Wenger, 66, on Friday.

“I’m not in a destructive mode, never. I’m more constructive. I am focused on Saturday’s game against Chelsea.”

Mourinho, 53, described Wenger as a “voyeur” in 2005, after his rival questioned Chelsea’s transfer policy.

The Portuguese referred to Wenger as a “specialist in failure” in February 2014 after the Frenchman said other Premier League managers were playing down their title chances because they “fear to fail”.

In the aftermath, Mourinho is quoted – in a book serialised in the Daily Mail – as saying: “I will find him one day outside a football pitch and I will break his face.”